[sane-devel] usb Scanner always busy

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:07:52PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Oops, sorry Henning.  The scanner is an Epson Perfection 1250u. 
> sane-backends is 1.0.11 IIRC.  Present kernel is 2.6.0-test9-mm2.

1.0.12 is the current stable version. There are also snapshots of
1.0.13. However I don't remember such a problem.

> xsane, when launched, appears to be ok.  But click on get preview, or 
> just click on the go button, and the return is that its busy, coming 
> back instantly.
> 
> dmesg seems to indicate its found and linked in the normal manner.

Please show us the output of "scanimage -L".

> But click on get preview gets a message box telling me it failed to 
> start the scanner, and does it in just a few hundred milliseconds.

To be sure that no other backend makes trouble, you can disable
everything but yout backend in dll.conf.

> >You can enebale debug messages by setting the environment variable
> >SANE_DEBUG_BACKENDNAME=255 (BACKENDNAME is the name of the backend
> > you use).
> 
> I'm not sure which backend is showing,

"scanimage -L" shows the backend name.

> but let me run it...  Plustek
> seems to be the choice after it wades past a bunch of bttv stuffs and 
> the test backends.

"plustek" or "epkowa" if you have isntalled the latter.

> Setting the env var doesn't seem to effect things either...

Setting it prints debug messages.

E.g. 

SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 scanimage -d plustek >image.pnm

Bye,
  Henning